Japan Earthquake And Tsunami Caused By "Solar Flare"

Japanese media reported at least 1,000 people are presumed dead from Friday's massive 8.9 earthquake, most drowned by Tsunami that swept across the northeast coast of the island nation.

And its not only a coincidence that it happened exactly after 24 hours Solar flare hit Earth.

According to NASA website March 9th ended with a powerful solar flare. Earth-orbiting satellites detected an X1.5-class explosion from behemoth sunspot 1166 around 2323 UT. A movie from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (above) shows a bright flash of UV radiation plus some material being hurled away from the blast site.

In addition, on March 10, 2011 around 0630 UT, a CME did strike a glaceing blow to Earth's magnetic field. This was a result of an M3 flare that occurred late on March 7, 2011.

At 2,200 km/sec, this was the fasted CME since September 2005.

What is going on with all this recent solar activity?

After four years without any X-flares, the sun has produced two of the powerful blasts in less than one month: Feb. 15th and March 9th. This continues the recent trend of increasing solar activity associated with our sun's regular 11-year cycle, and confirms that Solar Cycle 24 is indeed heating up, as solar experts have expected. Solar activity will continue to increase as the solar cycle progresses toward solar maximum, expected in the 2013 time frame.

What is a solar flare and what does X-class mean?

A solar flare is an intense burst of radiation coming from the release of magnetic energy associated with sunspots. Flares are our solar system’s largest explosive events. They are seen as bright areas on the sun and they can last from minutes to hours. We typically see a solar flare by the photons (or light) it releases, at most every wavelength of the spectrum. The primary ways we monitor flares are in x-rays and optical light. Flares are also sites where particles (electrons, protons, and heavier particles) are accelerated.

Scientists classify solar flares according to their brightness in the x-ray wavelengths. There are three categories: C, M, X, with each one representing approximately 10x more power. The number following the letter indicates another factor applied to the basic classification scheme, from 1-9. At the high end, the X class can go higher than 9 because there is no higher letter classification.

What is a coronal mass ejection (CME)?

The outer solar atmosphere, the coronal, is structured by strong magnetic fields. Where these fields are closed, often above sunspot groups, the confined solar atmosphere can suddenly and violently release bubbles of gas and magnetic fields called coronal mass ejections. A large CME can contain a billion tons of matter that can be accelerated to several million miles per hour in a spectacular explosion. Solar material streams out through the interplanetary medium, impacting any planet or spacecraft in its path. CMEs are sometimes associated with flares but can occur independently. Source : NASA

Moreover even NASA admitted on their website "spacequake can cause Northern lights and magnitude 5 or 6 earthquake".

Spacequake :

According to NASA, researchers by using NASA's fleet of five THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a form of space weather that packs the punch of an earthquake and plays a key role in sparking bright Northern Lights. They call it "the spacequake."

A spacequake is a temblor in Earth's magnetic field. It is felt most strongly in Earth orbit, but is not exclusive to space. The effects can reach all the way down to the surface of Earth itself.

"Magnetic reverberations have been detected at ground stations all around the globe, much like seismic detectors measure a large earthquake," says THEMIS principal investigator Vassilis Angelopoulos of UCLA.

It's an apt analogy because "the total energy in a spacequake can rival that of a magnitude 5 or 6 earthquake," according to Evgeny Panov of the Space Research Institute in Austria. Panov is first author of a paper reporting the results in the April 2010 issue of Geophysical Research Letters (GRL).

In general, Earth's magnetic field lines can be thought of as rubber bands stretched taut by the solar wind, which is actually charged particles flowing in all directions from the sun, said study co-author Vassilis Angelopoulos, a space physicist at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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1 There is no danger for loss of life from CME (Coronal Mass Ejections) solar storms like the one expected Friday 9am, 21 Dec, 2012.

2 However, these strong solar storms (like the strong tsunami expected), are known (under the right circumstances) to be capable to destroy (burn out) all electrical transformers with in their range interrupting the power supply in this way that is transmitted to our homes and to our cities.

3 If the solar storm is born from the NORTH side of the sun, the polarity of earth will force the magnetic elements of the storm to bounce off and disappear out into space. However if the storm is born from the SOUTH side, it will be drawn onto earth by earths polarity causing transformers to overload and burn out.

4 Prevention of panicThe correct and responsible information (facts) about the event that is going to take place will give the chance for everybody (all citizens) to prepare accordingly, and most important it will prevent “exaggerated” panic that can cost hundredths of lives particularly to ailing people the elderly and children.

5 Diagnosing the polarity of the storm and the size of the flare will give each country (those affected) only 12 minutes to put into practice the emergency precautions taken to confront the storm because this is the time estimated that it will take the magnetic solar flare to reach earth.

6 Being that the application of the precautions/ measures can take place with in 12 minutes alone, it would appropriate I think that the -precautions/safety plan- for each country would be consisted of 2 plans the -Green plan- and the -Red plan-.

7 In the case of a North bound storm everyone should be noticed -everything ok- as soon as possible…in order to prevent the type panic that will bring destruction and casualties..

8 There is but only one way to confront a storm (the Red Plan) that is going to be known that is going to destroy all of the electrical transformers of a country. Allow me to add here that in case of their destruction, the time needed to replace the transformers will be 15-20 years because the factories that make them are very few, and they are going to give priorities everywhere. The “plunging” of a country into darkness before and during the storm is a series matter, but is the lesser of the 2 evils the other one being the whole country being with out electricity for many years to come!

The information presented is a small summary begotten out of a TV science series named «Perfect Disasters»

This essay is one of -good will- and it is of a humanitarian nature. The opinion expressed as to the way in handling the phenomena (the storm) is personal. It is also of personal opinion that:

The predicted precision in time, day and year with which the phenomena (tsunami) is making a re appearance, reveals very specific conditions under which the storm can realize its self, revealing in this way, that the area of earth most likely to be effected, is the same one that was effected during the last Coronal Mass Ejection… the Golf of Mexico.